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Still significant numbers of blue dots in almost every section on the Ticketmaster website, so barring a late rush the Grey Cup may not be a sellout this year. In contrast, there appears to be no availability now for Tuesday's MLS conference final second leg and although the prices are lower they are not massively less.

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As I have mentioned in other threads. The tickets were actually significantly more (sub $50 for TFC to $89) for the Grey Cup game. Not only that, but TFC and Montreal are in the conference finals for MLS, those are Canada's two biggest cities. They still had less TV Viewership that the CFL Conference finals. Wednesday may change that, but it is unlikely on current trends.

A Pizza Pizza promotion offering Grey Cup tickets for a bargain price has been shut down by the CFL.

The walk-in special at 16 Hamilton-area Pizza Pizza outlets offered a pair of tickets as part of a $29.99 package that also included a large three-topping pizza, 10 chicken wings, four cans of pop and two dipping sauces.

The league shut down the offer as invalid, but not before it gained considerable buzz on social media. The fact that Sunday’s CFL championship game at BMO Field has not yet sold out has been a talking point, and the optics of the pizza special didn’t help the city’s reputation as lukewarm toward Canada’s professional football league...

The Argos bombed in first year at BMO, Cup tickets were priced too high and the city’s packed with major sports events this year. Note to CFL: Wait 10 years before calling again.

Well, at least the horse pooped in the lobby of a Holiday Inn. The last time the Grey Cup came to Toronto the Royal York once again decided it was too snooty to let an equine and some Westerners stroll through the lobby, tradition be damned. In 2007 they barred the doors; in 2012 they let Marty the horse in for a second, and then shooed him away. This time, the Holiday Inn on Carlton invited Marty and Calgary’s travelling troupe in, and wouldn’t you know it, Marty did what horses do. Kablooie.

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And still, the Grey Cup should not have been here, not this year. The Grey Cup should have been trundled off to Ottawa, the league’s new hotbed; failing that, it should have been plopped in the Alberta fail-safes of Calgary or Edmonton. This was another annus horribilis for the CFL in Toronto: a new stadium, new owners, a bright shining future, and they only got 16,380 people per game in the building to watch the team implode. The team lost more than its customary minimum of $5 million, due partly to marketing costs. If this was a watershed year, the Argos once again failed...

Saturday, November 26, 2016 — TORONTO (November 26, 2016) - This Sunday's 104th Grey Cup presented by Shaw can be seen live beginning at 6:00 p.m. ET on TSN and RDS in Canada, ESPN2 in the United States, Pacific Rim and the Caribbean, on ESPN+ in Brazil, and on BT Sport in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland. The game is also available via online stream outside ESPN markets in almost every major country, with the exception of China for $9.95.

Networks will also air the 30-minute pregame show – 104th Grey Cup presented by Shaw: Countdown to Kickoff – from 6-6:30 p.m. (ESPN3 will deliver the pregame show in the United States, Pacific Rim and the Caribbean).

Canada's largest single day sporting event, the Grey Cup, will also be streamed live on WatchESPN and the ESPN app in the United States, ESPN Play in Mexico, Central America, South America (excluding Brazil) and the Caribbean, WatchESPN in the Pacific Rim and Brazil, and BT Sport's digital broadband player in the UK and Ireland. Additionally, the Grey Cup will be available on tape delay in Brazil via ESPN+ (December 2 at 12:30 p.m. US ET) and in Australia and New Zealand on ESPN (November 30 at 5 a.m. US ET and December 1 at 11:30 a.m. US ET).

Live streaming and on-demand coverage of the 104th Grey Cup presented by Shaw is available in Canada to TSN subscribers via TSN GO. French-language live streaming and on-demand coverage of the big game is available to RDS subscribers via RDS GO.

The Grey Cup can also be heard in English across TSN’s 24-station Grey Cup Radio Network (see below for details). French-language radio coverage is available in French on 104.7 FM Outaouais.

SiriusXM's live Grey Cup game coverage can be heard in English on Canada Talks (channel 167) and in French on Influence Franco (channel 174). SiriusXM subscribers can listen to the broadcast on satellite, online and through the SiriusXM app.

This Sunday, the Calgary Stampeders play the Ottawa REDBLACKS at BMO Field in Toronto with the Canadian Football League championship title and the iconic Grey Cup trophy at stake.

TSN Radio will produce live coverage of the Grey Cup that can be heard starting at 4 p.m. ET on the following Bell Media Radio family of stations, which combine to create the 24-station Grey Cup Radio Network:

Saturday, November 26, 2016 — TORONTO (November 26, 2016) - This Sunday's 104th Grey Cup presented by Shaw can be seen live beginning at 6:00 p.m. ET on TSN and RDS in Canada, ESPN2 in the United States, Pacific Rim and the Caribbean, on ESPN+ in Brazil, and on BT Sport in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland. The game is also available via online stream outside ESPN markets in almost every major country, with the exception of China for $9.95.

Networks will also air the 30-minute pregame show – 104th Grey Cup presented by Shaw: Countdown to Kickoff – from 6-6:30 p.m. (ESPN3 will deliver the pregame show in the United States, Pacific Rim and the Caribbean).

Canada's largest single day sporting event, the Grey Cup, will also be streamed live on WatchESPN and the ESPN app in the United States, ESPN Play in Mexico, Central America, South America (excluding Brazil) and the Caribbean, WatchESPN in the Pacific Rim and Brazil, and BT Sport's digital broadband player in the UK and Ireland. Additionally, the Grey Cup will be available on tape delay in Brazil via ESPN+ (December 2 at 12:30 p.m. US ET) and in Australia and New Zealand on ESPN (November 30 at 5 a.m. US ET and December 1 at 11:30 a.m. US ET).

Live streaming and on-demand coverage of the 104th Grey Cup presented by Shaw is available in Canada to TSN subscribers via TSN GO. French-language live streaming and on-demand coverage of the big game is available to RDS subscribers via RDS GO.

The Grey Cup can also be heard in English across TSN’s 24-station Grey Cup Radio Network (see below for details). French-language radio coverage is available in French on 104.7 FM Outaouais.

SiriusXM's live Grey Cup game coverage can be heard in English on Canada Talks (channel 167) and in French on Influence Franco (channel 174). SiriusXM subscribers can listen to the broadcast on satellite, online and through the SiriusXM app.

This Sunday, the Calgary Stampeders play the Ottawa REDBLACKS at BMO Field in Toronto with the Canadian Football League championship title and the iconic Grey Cup trophy at stake.

TSN Radio will produce live coverage of the Grey Cup that can be heard starting at 4 p.m. ET on the following Bell Media Radio family of stations, which combine to create the 24-station Grey Cup Radio Network:

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Seeing as you want to troll, I'll be seeing you in the TFC and MLS threads

Two articles were posted that are CFL news...not positive news, but news none the less. That is not trolling. Does that mean that only positive news can be posted in the NASL thread despite all of its warts?

If you would like to participate in the MLS threads, fine. But to barrage them out of spite is petty.

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If you would like to participate in the MLS threads, fine. But to barrage them out of spite is petty.

Yes it is petty, and so is trolling a CFL forum when other people asked you not to. So will it be considered trolling if i go out of my way to post negative news about TFC? It is news right?

It is not BBTB's intent to post news he has zero interest in the CFL, it's about his agenda to see the Argos and CFL dead which is reprehensible. Anyone else and it would be just bad news but with him and a few others it's trolling, it's his M.O. on this subject.

I'm not one to not fight back when provoked, petty as it may be, you can thank BBTB. Remember you didn't see one word from me about the Mickey Mouse penalty line fiasco in Montreal. but that would be open season for people to call the CFL bush league